GissaMittJobb
@GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals 2 days ago:
It was never a strong combat game imo. It’s a fantastic game despite the combat, not because of the combat.
- Comment on VPN by Google One shuts down 1 week ago:
Product launches are the vehicle for attaining promotions at Google, allegedly. Maintenance does not get similarly rewarded, nor does launching projects and having them live on to actually be successful.
When the launcher got promoted and moved on, they have to figure out whether to keep the thing around, and the answer is generally going to be no since few things can really compete with the infinite money glitch that is search ads.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 1 week ago:
The cost of storage in this case is more or less irrelevant - traffic is what matters here. You’re also not getting any mentionable bulk discount on the servers for that matter.
The key is that you can engineer things in completely different way when you have trivial amounts of traffic hitting your systems - you can do things that will not scale in any way, shape or form.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 1 week ago:
Their scale was also an insignificant fraction of what Netflix has, making the point even more irrelevant.
The best figure I could find on Jetflicks user count was 37k, where as Netflix has 269 million users.
- Comment on Economics 1 week ago:
The demand is basically artificial since there are a limited amount of calculator models that are allowed to be used on tests at universities. Since they can get away with it, they keep charging these prices.
- Comment on Hades II's First Patch Changes How Sprint And Resource Collecting Works 1 month ago:
What level of Early Access would you call this? On a scale of “dev needs more money before the proper launch” to “basically done already and early access as a form of marketing”.
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 1 month ago:
More powerful hardware makes tasks that were previously not considered end-user tasks feasible for end-users, just give it some time.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 1 month ago:
Growing up, there was an association in my area for common ownership of different types of machinery and other equipment for its members. You paid something like $10 a year, and for that you got to borrow all kinds of things you might need as a home owner, like a wood chopper/splitter, high pressure washer, trailers, leaf blowers, cement mixer, scaffolding etc.
I always thought that was brilliant.
- Comment on How working for Big Tech lost 'dream job' status 2 months ago:
Middling pay? At FAANG-tier companies?
These are some extraordinary claims in need of some extraordinary proof.
- Comment on Geography is neat 2 months ago:
Just made for a good border-point, really.
This is all imagined though as I refuse to recognize the sovereignty of Finland and Norway - long live the Great Swedish Empire
- Comment on There it is 2 months ago:
I’ve used and enjoyed that kind of setup a while back, but my new favourite is to have something that rotates different backgrounds. macOS has their dynamic wallpapers which you can set to cycle through different ones on a regular basis, which I really like. I still don’t like having any icons, though.
On Android, I use Muzei to get a different artwork as my background every day. It’s also very nice.
- Comment on Oh the wonders of technology 2 months ago:
You’re telling me you’ve gone through all the effort of performing a double-blind test all by yourself?
- Comment on Oh the wonders of technology 2 months ago:
Do you hear it consistently under double-blind conditions?
- Comment on More and more people are ditching carrier roaming in favor of travel eSIMs 2 months ago:
I’ve always been sent a text when I connect to the network of a different country. It happened immediately when I crossed over from France to Monaco, for example.
- Comment on Study: Social media don't displace in-person hangouts for teens 2 months ago:
Idk how much I can trust anything being posted by Reason tbh - it’s not exactly what I would call a respectable publication.
- Comment on What web services do you subscribe to? 2 months ago:
Google One, Spotify, Netflix and Nebula.
- Comment on Intel discloses $7 billion operating loss for chip-making unit. 2 months ago:
Not to say that it’s a sufficient penalty for the C-suite, but their compensation packages generally consist of stock options in the company, meaning that the share price decline following unexpected negative events translate into a large pay cut for them.
- Comment on Swiss hydrogen-powered train sets 1741-mile record for nonstop travel 2 months ago:
I honestly think this is just cheaping out, and I bet electrification will pay off on a long enough horizon.
Fwiw, I think basically all of Sweden where I live is electrified - 80% of the rails, with the 20% principally being a freight line in the far north used for the purposes of transporting ore from the mines.
- Comment on Swiss hydrogen-powered train sets 1741-mile record for nonstop travel 2 months ago:
Save the hydrogen for better suited use-cases - trains are easily electrified and should be running on catenaries.
- Comment on Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B 3 months ago:
Less than worthless would be when exercised, not exercising would be worth 0 - unless you paid for the option contract, in which case not exercising would represent a loss.
- Comment on Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B 3 months ago:
Face value is unlikely to be the amount reported - I doubt the options are granted below the last reported market rate. Hence it’s probably relative to the amount of underlying stock the options represent.
You’d have to check the SEC-filings for more accuracy than that.
- Comment on Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B 3 months ago:
Basically yeah. Cash-out time for the VCs.
- Comment on Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B 3 months ago:
Are you talking about writing them off?
Options come with the obligation to pay for the underlying asset, so unless they are valued above the strike price, they are effectively worse than worthless.
- Comment on Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B 3 months ago:
This has never been necessary for an IPO.
- Comment on Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B 3 months ago:
It’s in the form of stock options, which won’t be worth any particularly noteworthy amount unless the IPO goes really well.
- Comment on Asi que sed 3 months ago:
CHI CHI CHI
- Comment on Sweeping EU rules for tech giants take effect today. Here’s what’s changing | CNN Business 3 months ago:
Their attempt to maliciously comply is both against the spirit of the law - making it a violation in the EU regardless - and the letter of the law: the text mentions that they can’t charge for this.
Time for a nice 10% of global revenues-fine. That’ll do some good in the coffers of the EU.
- Comment on [What If?] Would a Submarine Work as a Spaceship? 3 months ago:
I really love the mandatory fishing license-bit. Truly a peak Futurama-episode!
- Comment on You ain't stabbing anyone with this shit 4 months ago:
The replication crisis is way too real.
- Comment on How Working From Home Changed My Life 4 months ago:
I have a personal theory that a lot of complaints about working in-person go away when you remove very long commutes, in particular by car.
A bit like how most complaints about pull requests go away if you make it a priority to get them done as fast as possible.